Description

Ventnor.

Title: "BIG LANDSLIDE IN ISLE OF WIGHT. Serious collapse on the Undercliffe - one of the beauty sports of the Island - holds up vehicular traffic".

M/S of two men standing on a path half way up a cliff, part of it has crumbled away unrooting trees and stirring up mud. M/S of a man breaking rocks with a pickaxe. M/S of a man sticking a shovel in a ditch created by the landslide. L/S of the landslide, a man walks along a path next to it. Panning shot, taken from the bottom of the landslide, of people walking along the top of the cliff. Panning C/U of the cracked and crumbling earth. High angled L/S of the landslide, a large uprooted tree lays on its side.

10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.